The best way to demonstrate it to him is take a save of 40 year old fortress with 150 dwarves in it on a good sized embark with a volcano that just breached the circus and install it on his gaming rig and watch it bring his rig to its knees.

I sort of thought the trivial was for "what's happening in your fort?" and probably have been using that thread wrong all this time

Trivial thing: Expedition leaders, it appears, get rechosen at the moment that a dwarf dies, even though the dwarfs don't know about it. A week after a new EL was chosen, the old one got reported as "missing"...

My mayor wanted rings. I forgot about it and everything seemed fine. Then he fell to melancholy because I didn't punish Urist McCraftsdorf. I started building a nice tomb for him anyway when he began flashing due to dehydration. My legendary (lvl32) engraver made a masterful engraving right in the middle of the room where the sarcophagus was later placed. It depicted the mayor becoming the new elected leader 2 years prior.

Now I have a bad conscience for not paying more attention to the mandate or taking care of the justice department earlier...

The best way to demonstrate it to him is take a save of 40 year old fortress with 150 dwarves in it on a good sized embark with a volcano that just breached the circus and install it on his gaming rig and watch it bring his rig to its knees.

I found out that while Molemarians may be blood thirsty murderers, both mole men and giant moles are pushovers.

So now he's Soul of the Molemen...

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Engraved here is a rendition of an image of the Dwarf Fortress learning curve. All craftsdwarfship is of the highest quality. It depicts an obsidian overhang which menaces with spikes of obsidian and tears. Carved on the overhang is an image of Toady One and the players. The players are curled up in a fetal position. Toady One is laughing. The players are burning.The VectorCurses+1 tileset strikes the square set and the severed part sails off in an arc!

Trivial thing: Expedition leaders, it appears, get rechosen at the moment that a dwarf dies, even though the dwarfs don't know about it. A week after a new EL was chosen, the old one got reported as "missing"...

Quote from: Terry Pratchett

The only thing known to go faster than ordinary light is monarchy, according to the philosopher Ly Tin Wheedle. He reasoned like this: you can't have more than one king, and tradition demands that there is no gap between kings, so when a king dies the succession must therefore pass to the heir instantaneously. Presumably, he said, there must be some elementary particles -- kingons, or possibly queons -- that do this job, but of course succession sometimes fails if, in mid-flight, they strike an anti-particle, or republicon. His ambitious plans to use his discovery to send messages, involving the careful torturing of a small king in order to modulate the signal, were never fully expanded because, at that point, the bar closed.

Trivial thing: Expedition leaders, it appears, get rechosen at the moment that a dwarf dies, even though the dwarfs don't know about it. A week after a new EL was chosen, the old one got reported as "missing"...

Quote from: Terry Pratchett

The only thing known to go faster than ordinary light is monarchy, according to the philosopher Ly Tin Wheedle. He reasoned like this: you can't have more than one king, and tradition demands that there is no gap between kings, so when a king dies the succession must therefore pass to the heir instantaneously. Presumably, he said, there must be some elementary particles -- kingons, or possibly queons -- that do this job, but of course succession sometimes fails if, in mid-flight, they strike an anti-particle, or republicon. His ambitious plans to use his discovery to send messages, involving the careful torturing of a small king in order to modulate the signal, were never fully expanded because, at that point, the bar closed.

A constructed up-ramp that is under a bridge (not one z-level down, just under the bridge at the same level) is still sufficient for mining upwards, but won't remove the tile above until mining actually happens.

Constructing a downstairs on a natural ground floor will act as a downstairs if an upstairs is below it. Deconstructing the downstairs leaves the natural floor.

Dwarves that are generally belligerent, like some measure of chaotic living, and view war as preferable to peace will train as diligently as weaponmasters given the chance. Or at least last time I had such a dwarf they did.

I had openend up the first level of the caverns, which were housing Giant Cave Spiders, Cave Crocodile, Helmet Snakes and Crundles. (ended up several tamed crocodiles running lose in my fortress now)Almost the entire population of Crundles died from Helmet Snake poison.. and couldn't care that much about those weird critters.

One of my more important dwarves.. Forgotten whom.. Got caught in the Crundles' pain and had to revenge all those poor critters (got one of those thoughts).I tried with all my power to make him stop fighting the Helmet Snake, because I thought the Dwarves wont mix right with snake poison.I couldn't get him to stop and the combat report said the following:

- Helmet snake bites xx Dwarf. (did not inject the poison, as it did with -all- the crundles).- His response was.. Ha! I laugh in the face of death.. this is a fight!And punched the snake's head into oblivion.

It made it funny to me, because I was expecting almost all the dwarves to fall prey to the snake and did not expect much from said Dwarf's combat skills.His "This is a fight!" comment and immediate kill.. made it funny.

(I think all other Dwarves simply fled from the snake, which was constantly biting Crundles still)

I discovered that an iron large dagger is actually a pretty respectable weapon against goblins. The one dwarf that had it got about half the kills of the entire military before I was forced to abandon due to the tantrum spiral of losing half my military to a goblin invasion...